Improvement in tailors  measuring apparatus



PA'rEN'r OEEIcE ALBERT4 HEIGHEY, on LEBANON, PENNSYLVANIA.

iMPRovEMENT 1N TAiLQRs MEAsuRlNG APPRATus.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

165,026, dated June 29, 1875; application filed January 20, 1875. Y

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALBERT H. RICHEY, of Lebanon, in the county of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Tailors7 Measuring Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the construction and operation thereof', which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and ligures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 ot' the drawing is a representation ofthe invention when applied and adjusted to the body ot' a person. Fig. 2 of the drawing is a representation of the same when it is re.

moved from the body and applied to the cloth, for the purpose ot' drawing` the pattern.

Similar letters indicate correspondin g parts. My invention relates to a tailors measuring apparatus, which is composed of a series ot' thin metallic strips ot' sheet metal, some of 4which are madeV to slide and others to vibrate,

and each strip is provided with an appropriate scale, and with adj ustin g-registers placed under each vibrating arm at its base; also, with open hooks, in such a manner that the same can be made to assume the shape of the 1 body, and then transferred from the body and placed upon the cloth, for the purpose ot' drawing the pattern thereon. i

My apparatus consists of an arm-scye gage, breast-rule, back -rule, and curved vibrating main arm. The main arm is provided with a vibrating arm for marking the shoulder-gage, and three smaller vibrating arms for marking shoulder-point, neck-gage, and neck-front. My back-rule is provided with a curved sliding` arm for marking arm-scye gage, a slide for marking back-seam, and a sliding horizontal bar for marking neck-seam and length ot'waist. The arms and slides are provided with open hooks, to hold Vthem in place after they are adjusted. The breast-rule is also provided with a strap, which is hooked to the back-rule around the body to keep the apparatus in place while the rest of the parts are adjusted to the body, and to enable me to use the plumbline and bob to ascertain whether the measure is tted square to the body, and the correct structed and connected to each other as to adshape ot' different persons may require, and after the shape of the body has been correctly adjusted the ksame can be transferred to the cloth, and the patterns can be drawn in the manner hereinafter described.

The manner in which my invention is operated to secure the results mentioned is as follows: The arm is placed through the scye, between slide F and arm D. and held tight up under the arm, the strap being fastened tight around the body to the hook attached to the end ot' the back-rule; adjust the plumb-line and bobE; shift slide 4F close to back of scye or arm, which denotes Width of scye; shift slide G to center seam ot' back, which marks width ot' back-pattern; hook `point 1B on slide F fair to the body at top; bring arm D fair vover the shoulder to meet point 6 on slide F;

hook point 7 arm D, which marks size of arm hole or scye; shift perpendicular bar-slide H' up to the neck-seam, which marks height of neck on back and length ot' Waist; carry arm A to point l on back at neck,`and note register on arm A, and distance. to point l, which locates points l and 2 5 shoulder point and back shoulder-point to join; carry arm B up to neck-seam, note register on arm B, and distance to point 3, neck-seam or gorge; lcarry arm C up to center at neck-front; noteregister on arm C and distance to center oi' neck, which locates point 4, and gives correct size ot' neck and height of neck-front, note register on arm D; this gives the inclination oi the shoulder; take the center of breastpoint 5 ou bar H 5 this gives quantity of goods required for breast-pattern; note distance, and locate height ot' back-point, back D at point 7, at back-point, as located by point 6, slide F; this gives size ot' scye and location ot' shoulder-seam'at scye; note distance to center of back, slide H; these will give a correct adjustment of the apparatus for application to the cloth. The plumb having been correct during these operations, measure from plumb-line E front to center otA stomach angles, the plumb being attached between the breastrule and back rule, directly beneath the main arm; all the parts being so con-V mit of its extension or contraction, as the of scye on slide F; also, note distance on armwith inch measure, and note distance, this will give quantity of goods Wanted in front to center of body; measure with inch measure from same point on plumb-line E to center of back, .natural waist-tight; this will denotecorrect quantity of goods required to center of back; measure full length of coat and length of sleeve from scye to elbow, and to wrist.

For drawing the pattern, place the apparatus, previously adjusted, as described, slide perpendicular bar H to edge of cloth toward the person drawing, allowing at waist for back curve and tack; place all adjusting slides and arms to correspond exact-ly as adj usted in measuring the body; mark on the cloth at all extended points from points of adjustment carefully to correspond with distances as taken in measuring 5 mark around the shape of scye; draw a line from plumb E square down to waist, and then remove the apparatus from the cloth. By the further aid ofthe inch measure the patterns can now be drawn correctly by a little calculation and practice, and the exact shape of the body will be secured.

The vibrating arm Dl attached to the main arm D is used in the same manner as the arm D where the body to be measured is more broad-shouldered than can be measured by the arm D, and also for the purpose ot' measuring ladies7 dress-bodies, substantially as described.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination with the main arm D, the vibrating arms A, B, and C, slide F, and horizontal bar H, provided with appropriate scales and registers, and with open hooks for connecting the parts together, all constructed and arranged, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

A. H. RIGHEY.

Witnesses:

LEVI MYERS, E. G. FAUBER; 

